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"My mother wasn't good"
Helen Naylor's Incredible Debut
By Matt Turpin
Mum's Secret Illness
Cheat!
On the outside Helen Naylor had a pretty standard childhood. She had a father, a mother and roof over her head. But all was not as it seemed. In 2016, 2 years after her mother’s death, Helen discovered her diaries. And in those diaries lay not only the truth about her mother’s medical conditions. But also the truth about Helen’s upbringing.
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My Mother, Munchausen's and Me
Mentally Yours
Mums are meant to be good, but Helen's was not. She chats to Yvette about her shocking family secret: her mother had been faking debilitating illnesses for thirty years.
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"STOLEN CHILDHOOD
My mum had Munchausen syndrome – she faked illness in my childhood, said dad was about to die & called me ugly & stupid"
My Mother, Munchausens and Me in The Sun
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Thread Publisher, Claire Bord, has acquired World English Language rights in Helen Naylor’s moving and astonishing memoir My Mother, Munchausen’s and Me from Caroline Hardman at the Hardman & Swainson Literary Agency.
Heloise Wood writes: "Thread, the non-fiction imprint of Bookouture, is teaming up with Hachette stablemate Octopus Publishing Group to launch a print partnership.
The first title in the new venture will be Florence Ọlájídé’s Coconut, described by Octopus as "a memoir of adoption and searching for belonging and identity," to be published in July. The partnership will see Octopus simultaneously publish physical editions alongside Thread’s e-book and audio formats.
Titles to be launched by Octopus in paperback this year include Gail Muller’s Unlost, an account of the author's journey completing the Appalachian Trail against all odds. Mona Hajjar Halaby’s memoir In My Mother’s Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home will also be published, as will the recently acquired My Mother, Munchausen’s and Me by Helen Naylor. Thread publisher Claire Bord bought world English-language rights in Naylor’s memoir about her mother’s mental illness from Caroline Hardman at the Hardman & Swainson Literary Agency."